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1  Zeena's empty rocking-chair stood facing him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  When he entered the kitchen it was empty, but Mattie's bag and shawl lay ready by the door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  They drew their seats up to the table, and the cat, unbidden, jumped between them into Zeena's empty chair.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and grey under the stars.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  A moment later he heard the jingle of departing sleigh bells and discerned a figure advancing alone toward the empty expanse of snow before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  The cat had jumped from Zeena's chair to dart at a mouse in the wainscot, and as a result of the sudden movement the empty chair had set up a spectral rocking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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7  The barn was empty when the horses turned into it and, after giving them the most perfunctory ministrations they had ever received from him, he strode up to the house and pushed open the kitchen door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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